Bibi Bourelly with PJ at First Avenue – 7th St Entry, Minneapolis

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7:00PM DOORS // 8:00PM SHOWTIME

Bibi Bourelly will change the way you think about fearlessness. The 21-year-old singer and songwriter introduced the world to her remarkable sound and undeniable spirit with her first two singles, “Ego” and “Riot,” which Fader called “brilliantly raw,” and she’s gearing up to do even more. Her sound is a balancing act of tough, wise worldliness and vulnerability that makes her a true force to be reckoned with. Bourelly was born in Berlin, to a guitar-player father and an art world powerhouse mother.

Creativity, and most importantly music, were literally in her blood. Bourelly says of her musical upbringing, “You know the way babies pick up on words? I learned music like another language, because it was all around me.” Technical skill and knowledge is only one element of what it takes to be an artist, though, and Bourelly says that her sound would be nothing like it is today were it not for the death of her mother from cancer when Bourelly was just six years old. Her mother’s death, and the forced self-reliance she had to learn after it, is the foundation of her songwriting. In addition to introducing her to the experience of profound loss and pain at a very young age, her mother’s death taught Bourelly to live life as freely as possible and to not take her desires for granted.

In the years that followed her mother’s death, Bourelly took to the streets of Berlin, hanging out on rooftops and subways, ultimately getting into trouble with her friends. This became the backdrop for her creative evolution, which eventually led her to write Rihanna’s “Bitch Better Have My Money.” While most young teenagers would have been in school, Bourelly was learning to see the world in a whole new way on the streets. “The world was so big when I stopped giving a fuck about what people thought,” she says, adding, “when I was hanging out on rooftops, and drinkin’ and shit, I could accomplish anything. I could be anything I wanted to be.”

Listen to Bibi Bourelly’s debut EP ‘Free The Real’ (Pt. #1) via Spotify below:

PJ has earned widespread acclaim and attention for her street-smart but sophisticated brand of contemporary R&B, rich with lyrical nuance and iconoclastic melodies. Hailed by NPR as “your favorite rapper’s favorite songwriter,” PJ is undoubtedly one of today’s most in-demand tunesmiths, with credits including Chris Brown & Tyga’s “Bitches N Marijuana (Feat. ScHoolboy Q),” B.o.B’s “Not For Long (Feat. Trey Songz),” Wiz Khalifa’s “True Colors (Feat. Nicki Minaj),” and Meek Mill’s ”I Don’t Know (Feat. Paloma Ford),” among others. Known to friends and family as Paris Jones, the North Carolina-born singer/songwriter first heralded her album RARE earlier this year with “Gangster,” praised by The Fader as “an anthem for anyone who thinks they might be too nice.” PJ’s “pen game is still on point,” declared VIBE. “Here, the chocolate crooner tells of her daily experiences with cruel people who irk her and makes her re-consider the idea of being a respectable, nice chica.” “’Gangster’ sounds like a contemporary version of the encouraging, accessible brand of music we would have heard from TLC one or two decades ago,” raved NPR, noting, “PJ delivers her contemplative message with a smile and an earworm of a beat, managing to make a question that broils in the pit of one’s stomach feel like a non-issue — or, at the very least, like an obstacle that can be overcome.”

Listen to PJ ‘s debut album ‘RARE‘ via Spotify below: